Example sentences of "to make [pers pn] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He comes once a week with it and I 've got to be careful to make them last . |
| 2 | And they 'd buy a brand new pair of boots and take them straight round to the shoe repairer and have an extra sole put on , from brand new to make them last longer . |
| 3 | Two years later he made 83 for Victoria against the West Indians , and in the following season , 1931–32 , his unbeaten 111 against NSW at Melbourne , which saw his side to an amazing victory when their target was 434 , persuaded the Test selectors to make him 12th man for the final Test . |
| 4 | Bearing eloquent witness to the strength of this strategy , NEC 's total computer sales in 1981 surpassed those of Hitachi to make it second only to Fujitsu among Japanese makers . |
| 5 | Nobody expected it to be competitive but it had been thought that any team serious enough to build and enter a grand prix car should be competent enough to make it last more than five consecutive laps . |
| 6 | I still got a bit of coffee left after I finish eating the doughnut , so I sip it slow to make it last , and look round the caff . |
| 7 | The crucial thing to make it last a reasonable amount of time is to use the length of your premises to the best advantage and have them going to one end and then back , otherwise they may finish surprisingly quickly . |
| 8 | I 've only ever really and truly fallen in love once and I did n't manage to make it last , so that probably was the person |
| 9 | Poor students at the university were long known as ‘ mealie students ’ because they took a sack of meal and salt lumps with them and had to make it last all term . |
| 10 | I looked out of the tiny window over her shoulder , willing myself to make it slow , to make it last . |
| 11 | After all , the purpose of thick engrossment paper was to make it last . |
| 12 | BRITISH featherweight champion Sean Murphy is out to make it third time lucky when he challenges for the WBO world title next month . |
| 13 | NAFUTH , runner-up on both his starts to date , looks set to make it third time lucky in the EBF Dunkirk Maiden Stakes ( Division One ) at Doncaster tomorrow . |